Films watched recently... (CAUTION, SPOILERS)

Kathaarian

I liked both movies. George Clooney has gotten significantly better over the years and turned into one of my favorites from an actor I hated.

Speaking of actors I used to hate, Leonardo DiCaprio takes the crown. The motherfucker has improved to be one of the best in business. Can't wait to see Shutter Island.

Sherlock Holmes - Pretty good movie. Guy Ritchie definitely knows how to make a good movie. He needs to make more.

Goat

I'll tell you a good George Clooney film - Out Of Sight. Yep, with J-Lo.

Dago

Spider by Cronenberg

Celine et Julie go boating by Jacques Rivette

Thomas

Role Models

Stupid, funny some times.

Goat

Dago wrote
Spider by Cronenberg

Like it? Fiennes is a great actor, but it wasn't that great a film, I thought.

Dago

Goat wrote
Dago wrote
Spider by Cronenberg
Like it? Fiennes is a great actor, but it wasn't that great a film, I thought.

I enjoyed it, but the biggest problem with this movie is that its too damn short, it feels like some pieces are missing. Its a shame because it had great potential and Fiennes is superb at everything he does...

cry_of_the_banshee

The Boondock Saints
:lol: :lol:
Seriously, WTF?!?
Could it have been any more derivitave?
Defoe's, as well as that Rocco dudes, performances were downright embarrassing.
Which I don't get; Defoe is a competent actor, usually.
Coulda been a good movie in the right hands and with some halfway decent writing, acting and directing (I have a soft spot for vigilantes wasting scumbags) but it just went horribly, horribly wrong.

noodles

Yeah that movie was terrible.

DevotedWalnut

Boondock Saints is funny cause you either love it or hate it. I'm sure most people here hate it, but I do know people who love it. Me though, I'm neutral, I don't hate and I don't like it. I can watch it and jus feel, what's next?

Anyway, watched Boomerang earlier today. Cheesy early 90s Eddie Murphy romantic comedy. Some kinda 'ha' moments, but pretty terribad for the most part.

cry_of_the_banshee

DevotedWalnut wrote
Boondock Saints is funny cause you either love it or hate it. I'm sure most people here hate it, but I do know people who love it. Me though, I'm neutral, I don't hate and I don't like it. I can watch it and jus feel, what's next?Anyway, watched Boomerang earlier today. Cheesy early 90s Eddie Murphy romantic comedy. Some kinda 'ha' moments, but pretty terribad for the most part.

Yeah, I kept hearing about how great it was, and had high expectations.
As soon as Smecker or whatever his name is started doing that Swan Lake bit at the crime scene, I had a feeling I was in for a reall lulu.
So much potential wasted in that movie; two devout Irish catholics putting out the lights of assorted scuzzbags while the investigating FBI guy struggles through his own moral dillema could have been a great movie. Hackneyed, you say? Yes, but it could have been made to work.

Man, don't even mention Eddy Murphy to me.
Whenever I see his rubber-lipped chump face and hear his goofy ass laugh, it makes me hate all of mankind.

noodles

I heard Boondock Saints was like Guy Ritchie's movies so I went in expecting British gangster fun and instead I got some braindead action movie that tried way too hard to be cool and who's main characters never even came close to getting hurt.

cry_of_the_banshee

noodles wrote
I heard Boondock Saints was like Guy Ritchie's movies so I went in expecting British gangster fun and instead I got some braindead action movie that tried way too hard to be cool and who's main characters never even came close to getting hurt.

Yeah.
The Ritchie / Tarantino, I want to say influence, but rip-off is more accurate, is so there it's not even a little bit subtle.
I don't want to give away any spoilers for those hapless bastards that haven't yet seen it, but it's a wonder that there weren't any lawsuits.
No character developement, no real plot to speak of, nothing of any wit was said (although I got a kick in the ass over the Tourette's bartender and his mixed up proverbs, because I like lowbrow humor at times), very implausible Deus ex Machina strategy, fake-as-hell Oirish accents, complete dependability on the viewers suspension of disbelief, especially the final courtroom scene; three guys in black overcoats, sunglasses, gloves and carrying fucking DUFFLEBAGS just waltz right on in, and nobody bats a fucking eyelash? Nahh, they don't look the least bit suspicious...
and WTF!!!, Dafoe? That shit was straight out of the Jim Carrey school of acting.
I really wanted to enjoy it, but godammit, I couldn't.
Well, the part when they lit that Russian pricks ass on fire managed to prod a smile out of me.

DevotedWalnut

Ha I love all this talk about Boondock Saints, because the second one just came out or is coming out and the commercials are everywhere.

traptunderice

DevotedWalnut wrote
Boondock Saints is funny cause you either love it or hate it.

DevotedWalnut wrote
Me though, I'm neutral, I don't hate and I don't like it.

Does not compute.

I honestly loved it in high school. I haven't watched it since then but growing up remembering lines like the Ron Jeremy coke joke. I love the part where Rocco smashes the guy's head in with the 8 ball. Or when Rocco shoots the cat and then screams at his girlfriend. "i killed your cat you druggie bitch"!

Orion

The 13th Warrior

:dio:

EdgeOfForever

traptunderice wrote
DevotedWalnut wrote
Boondock Saints is funny cause you either love it or hate it.

DevotedWalnut wrote
Me though, I'm neutral, I don't hate and I don't like it.

Does not compute.I honestly loved it in high school. I haven't watched it since then but growing up remembering lines like the Ron Jeremy coke joke. I love the part where Rocco smashes the guy's head in with the 8 ball. Or when Rocco shoots the cat and then screams at his girlfriend. "i killed your cat you druggie bitch"!

Me too. My friends and I would watch it together every chance we had. We knew all the lines and always had fun watching it. Now this was before we knew it had such a following. Now I think it's kind of silly, more so with all the idiots getting the Veritas/Aequitas tatoos and all that shit.

Kathaarian

I did really like Boondock Saints so I'm gonna say I've watched it once and enjoyed it very much and stay clear of this debate.

I don't think I'll bother watching the sequel. I've heard that it's nothing like the first one. Sucks brah. The director doesn't have any other movies that are as good as the first one so I guess that was a fluke.

Alice in Wonderland - Nice. I guess it couldn't be any better than this because the scenario is limited. Tim Burton is the best guy for the job, and Johnny Depp is one of the best actors right now so I didn't expect any worse, or better. Just good fun.

The Hurt Locker - Really good. But I still expected a bit better after all the hype.

traptunderice

EdgeOfForever wrote
Now I think it's kind of silly, more so with all the idiots getting the Veritas/Aequitas tatoos and all that shit.

Oh god umm yeah some people fail at pop culture.

Ness

Cold Souls - Pretty good. Mildly humorous, Paul Giamatti plays his typical neurotic character who is also named Paul Giamatti. He gets his soul extracted and it gets sold on the Russian black market. 7/10.

Goat

Orion wrote
The 13th Warrior:dio:

My uncle's in that. :cool:

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